Simon Willison's Weblog: forkhttp://simonwillison.net/2009-10-07T11:42:04+00:00Simon WillisonI like Unicorn because it's Unix2009-10-07T11:42:04+00:002009-10-07T11:42:04+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Oct/7/unicorn/#atom-tag
<p><strong><a href="http://tomayko.com/writings/unicorn-is-unix">I like Unicorn because it's Unix</a></strong></p>
Ryan Tomayko analyses Unicorn, a new, pre-forking Ruby HTTP server that makes extensive use of Unix syscalls and idioms, and asks why dynamic language programmers don’t take advantage of these more often.
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